Team 1836: The MilkenKnights is very excited to be back at the Orange County Regional this year. We are proud to announce that we will be hosting a scouting alliance at OCR this year. Last year, we held alliances at Idaho, San Diego, and Champs.

We want to share in the collection of quantitative scouting data to allow more teams access to data, regardless of their personnel situations.

What you provide:

1-2 Scouts for the majority of the event (or more)

Phones with cell service for those scouts (if you don't have cells with service, we can provide tablets but we need to know in advance)

What you get:

Database of all of the data collected

Lookup interface in Google Sheets

(Potentially) Slack slash command to lookup data

Meet new people and have fun

If you are interested in joining, or have any questions, please reply to this thread or PM me.

We have yet to finalize our list of what metrics we will be collecting but will post here once we know for certain.

SIGN UP
To participate, please head over to this sheet and sign up for whatever time slots you are available. Put the team number on the first line and the name of the scout on the second (if you don’t know the scout name yet, put “TBD”). After that, please type your team number in column K, put your primary email in column L, and put any additional emails (comma separated) in column M.

OVERVIEWWhat you provide
Scout what you can. Provide us with as many people as you are able for as much time as you can. We understand that some teams are smaller and people are involved in many different roles at events. That said, we’d like to have a full crew (6 people) at any given time during Qualification matches.
Preferably, scouts can provide their own mobile device with cellular data. We can provide tablets on a minimal basis if we are notified in advance but they do not have cellular so we need to rely on event WiFi or manual data entry.

What you get
All the raw data will be provided to you along with 3 preconfigured sheets for analyzing this data. This integrates with the TBA API* to get you up-to-the-minute match information. You’re also sure to make some friends and have fun along the way!*TBA API key required. Can be obtained at thebluealliance.com.

DATA COLLECTION
Data will be collected using a Google Form. This year, there is no data we are collecting which requires a custom interface beyond what Google has to offer.

Here’s a list of the metrics we’ll be collecting:

Code:

Prematch
No show ☑/⬜
Can't Move - Disabled ☑/⬜
Can't Move - Nonfunctional ☑/⬜
Auto
Cross the line Yes/No
Cubes in exchange #
Cubes in own switch #
Cubes in opponent switch #
Cubes in scale #
Teleop
Collect cubes from Floor☑/⬜ HP☑/⬜
Cubes in exchange #
Cubes in own switch #
Cubes in opponent switch #
Cubes in scale #
Endgame
What did they do? Nothing/drive on platform/climb
How many partners did they lift? None/1/2

We will be taking pictures of all of the robots and those will be made available to you, as well.

There is also an option on your data viewing sheet (info below) to add custom scouting data. This is useful for pit scouting data and any qualitative notes you take on teams.

DATA VIEWING/ANALYSIS
All data is accessible through Google Sheets. Here are the steps required from you:

Make a copy of this sheet (link will be provided to participating teams prior to the event)

Analyze the data using a suggested configuration or a custom one of your choosing.

We provide three suggested configurations for you to analyze your data:

Code:

Config_compare Compare up to 6 teams of your choosing
Config_matches Compare the 6 robots in a given match
Config_single View all the data available about a single

team
You’ll also find these sheets:

Code:

Raw View all of the data in the format in which it is collected
Images Robot images which are pulled up on the configurations
Team Data Your custom data section
About The info in this section of this document
CP Control Panel for you to configure the items listed in Step 2

See screenshots below of each format:CONFIG_COMPARECONFIG_MATCHESCONFIG_SINGLE